Eleanor Esher — Dreamland

London, Dulau & Co. Ltd. 1931 . First edition. Cloth. The very scarce first edition of Eleanor Esher's Dreamland, a presentation copy inscribed and signed by the author, with a reference to a poem associated with a mutual friend. In the publisher's original dark cloth binding.  First edition.  With a signed contemporary presentation inscription from the author: "W. Stevens-Stratton, from Eleanor Esher. Souvenir of a mutual friend. See Page 17." The reference directs the recipient to In Mayfair, a poem presenting an encounter between a visitor and a fashionable London shopkeeper. A collection of early 20th-century verse. The collection includes 'Change Here for Twyford,' A Second Fiddle, Her First Ball, Memories, The Persian Garden, Spring in Swinley Woods, The Dream Teachers, A Highland Holiday, and December 25.  In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally, very smart. Slight shelf wear to extremities. Slight fading to spine. Light rubbing to boards with one or two very slight marks. Author's presentation inscription to front free endpaper, dated 1939. Light offsetting to endpapers with the odd light spot. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean with the odd light spot to first and last few leaves; one or two spots to fore edge. leaves frequently untrimmed. Very Good Indeed . Ill.: None. Very Good Indeed .